Looking for sentences and phrases with the word throve? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Like clams, Brachiopodes throve almost everywhere, especially in warm and well-aerated waters.
Many private individuals, organizations, and towns have preserved portions of the roadway, businesses that throve on it, or collections of memorabilia.
The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
Spotted fever, yaws, typhus and trypanosomiasis throve here.
Examples from Classical Literature
Chivalry was a thing of French creation, and throve naturally on French soil.
The child grew and throve, and the years passed by, but brought no news of Morongoe.
The malvoisie grape, introduced from Crete, throve excellently, and at last produced the Madeira of commerce.
Pliny also records that it throve best when sown with cursing and railing.
And anyway she grew and throve better than any other child around.
Heedless of all which, the nurseling took to his spoon-meat, and throve.
Thus, in spite of strange food and surroundings, the little one throve.
Matkah used to go to sea to get things to eat, and the baby was fed only once in two days, but then he ate all he could and throve upon it.
So the boy throve and grew big, and in the meantime all prospered with the miller, and in a few years he was richer than he had ever been before.
One of them ate soup and bread, and throve like couch-grass.
She suckled and watched over it with great care, and it throve well.
So foolery was exchanged for foolery, and the thing throve well.
What son ever revolted even from the worst father, and throve in life?
These birds increased and throve in a manner truly wonderful.
